Jorge Ramos Quotes

We don't do the poor any favors by respecting the sensitivities of bad rulers who oppress their own people.

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.